These videos are wonderful!! I’m a retired teacher and now private tutor. Sentence diagramming has become a dinosaur of the past, but I still love it! And every once in a while my students come across this in their English classes at school. So please continue doing these wonderful videos, as they are so helpful. And Congrats on the book!!
Please come back!! I loved all three videos you've done so far! I'm having difficulty diagramming sentences that have infinitives. Could you show us how to diagram those when they're the subject, direct object, predicate nominative, appositive, and object of the preposition? It's especially tricky when there's a subject of the infinitive.
I hope and pray that you are well. Your humanity is glorious to behold. I see a picture of John Candy and I laugh. I see a picture of Bob Ross and I feel peaceful. I watch you diagramming sentences and I know there is good in the world. Thank you.
The best part of watching your videos are knowing that you enjoy what you do. It comes across so naturally. The videos are easy to understand and that helps so much. Thank you.
Thank you for coming back. I just found you a couple days ago but I’m so excited to learn more from you. I really did try to find others who are teaching sentence diagraming but most of them were just so boring it was too painful to watch. You are not boring, you are so much fun to listen to you make learning so easy.
This is wonderful; one lesson I've learned many times over in college is that reviewing the basics years after I first learned them can really enrich my craft, in any field. I have a question; how would you diagram a sentence like "Oatmeal is a breakfast we all can enjoy"? I can tell that it stitches two coherent sentences together -- oatmeal is a breakfast; we all can enjoy oatmeal -- but I'm boggling at the way they fit into one sentence without a connecting word.
@@susiemoat265 did you add "[that]" and use a dotted line to connect the diagrammed clause "we can all enjoy [that]" with "breakfast"? This is a good one. I like this example.
Awesome 👍. I'm just learning with my kids, especially with my 8 grader. He was struggling with it in class. But this video is helping us. We also watched the video from 2 yrs. So fun , but not easy for mommy when it comes to compound sentences. Thank you for posting this video. Stay blessed.
I love diagramming sentences. In Junior High School, Mom discovered we weren't learning it in school, so taught me herself from her school books. In the same way math nerds do math problems as an intellectual exercise, I diagram sentences. I'll just take one from a random article or book and diagram away!
I just saw your exploits on CBS news New York 20220805 Friday, rolling your table around the countryside. I absolutely love the clarity you offer in this chaotic world. Just watched this video, and am so excited, BUT I'm 73, so please hurry up and make some more videos, because my viewing permit has a limited expiration date!
I just finished your whole series (very helpful). I'm having trouble diagramming complex sentences like this "The sound of a helicopter winding up on the cliff cut through the night" The subject is "sound" modified by "The". The verb is "cut". "The sound cut". That's right. What I'm having trouble with is the sentence complement "Of a helicopter winding up on the cliff" Because "winding" is being used as a verb here. And I don't know what to do with extra verbs outside of the main predicate
Hi Jordyn, I'd diagram "of a helicopter" as a prepositional phrase under "sound" and then "winding up on the cliff" as a participial phrase modifying "helicopter." I can't remember right now whether I covered that latter element in my earlier videos.
Ellen, I just discovered you this week. I’m a writer, and I so appreciate your funny and to-the-point teaching style. I loved your longer length videos. Please create both longer and shorter lessons!
Hello Mam: Could you please help in diagramming: "The rich are happy." My concern is how to diagram 'rich' which is an adjective used with 'the' as a noun? Or is it fine to put 'rich' in usual 'noun position' ?
Very informative. Thank you!
These videos are wonderful!! I’m a retired teacher and now private tutor. Sentence diagramming has become a dinosaur of the past, but I still love it! And every once in a while my students come across this in their English classes at school. So please continue doing these wonderful videos, as they are so helpful. And Congrats on the book!!
Thank you so much! 😊
MORE diagramming please.
ikr, lol, we need more
I'm glad that you are back!
Please come back!! I loved all three videos you've done so far! I'm having difficulty diagramming sentences that have infinitives. Could you show us how to diagram those when they're the subject, direct object, predicate nominative, appositive, and object of the preposition? It's especially tricky when there's a subject of the infinitive.
it's so sad that you've only posted 3 videos 😢 i wish you did more. for example, on sequence of tenses
The queen of diagraming is back. Yay!
Love your videos and your book!
Thank you so much! 😊
so much for coming back.
... and we've never heard of her again...
I am not much of a video person. I admit it. 😄
I hope and pray that you are well. Your humanity is glorious to behold. I see a picture of John Candy and I laugh. I see a picture of Bob Ross and I feel peaceful. I watch you diagramming sentences and I know there is good in the world. Thank you.
Thank you for coming back!
Welcome back.. Happy to see you!
May God bless you!
Ellen! Nice job. That was fun.
Thank you, Scott!
Your videos are the best I've found. Please continue to make more 😊
Thanks for coming back after two years! I sure do hope you come back again. Thanks for all of the lessons.
I am happier for your returning with this 3rd video more than the newest John Wick movie!
The best part of watching your videos are knowing that you enjoy what you do. It comes across so naturally. The videos are easy to understand and that helps so much. Thank you.
Yay!!! I’m so glad you’re back!
Thank you, Stacy! I'm glad too! I like it here!
Thank you Ellen. How to diagram this sentence: It's inside a hard covering.
It = subject, [i]s = verb, "inside a covering" = prepositional phrase that goes under [i]s, "hard" goes under "covering."
Welcome back Ellen. With diagraming comes understanding.
A book a book! A book about,,,?
grammar, naturally! 💕
I will definitely gonna check the book out because I so love the grammar table.
Thank you, Independent Clause. I love that you are an independent clause. 💕
I am learning English, and these videos are really a great help for me.
Thank you for coming back. I just found you a couple days ago but I’m so excited to learn more from you. I really did try to find others who are teaching sentence diagraming but most of them were just so boring it was too painful to watch. You are not boring, you are so much fun to listen to you make learning so easy.
Thank you so much!
Wow! You’re back. I love your example sentences. Very funny. 😂
Thank you, IC!
This is wonderful; one lesson I've learned many times over in college is that reviewing the basics years after I first learned them can really enrich my craft, in any field.
I have a question; how would you diagram a sentence like "Oatmeal is a breakfast we all can enjoy"? I can tell that it stitches two coherent sentences together -- oatmeal is a breakfast; we all can enjoy oatmeal -- but I'm boggling at the way they fit into one sentence without a connecting word.
I think I figured it out, and the key phrase to google is "adjective clause."
@@susiemoat265 did you add "[that]" and use a dotted line to connect the diagrammed clause "we can all enjoy [that]" with "breakfast"? This is a good one. I like this example.
Awesome 👍. I'm just learning with my kids, especially with my 8 grader. He was struggling with it in class. But this video is helping us. We also watched the video from 2 yrs. So fun , but not easy for mommy when it comes to compound sentences.
Thank you for posting this video. Stay blessed.
I love diagramming sentences. In Junior High School, Mom discovered we weren't learning it in school, so taught me herself from her school books. In the same way math nerds do math problems as an intellectual exercise, I diagram sentences. I'll just take one from a random article or book and diagram away!
I just saw your exploits on CBS news New York 20220805 Friday, rolling your table around the countryside. I absolutely love the clarity you offer in this chaotic world.
Just watched this video, and am so excited, BUT I'm 73, so please hurry up and make some more videos, because my viewing permit has a limited expiration date!
I just finished your whole series (very helpful). I'm having trouble diagramming complex sentences like this
"The sound of a helicopter winding up on the cliff cut through the night"
The subject is "sound" modified by "The". The verb is "cut". "The sound cut". That's right.
What I'm having trouble with is the sentence complement "Of a helicopter winding up on the cliff"
Because "winding" is being used as a verb here. And I don't know what to do with extra verbs outside of the main predicate
Hi Jordyn, I'd diagram "of a helicopter" as a prepositional phrase under "sound" and then "winding up on the cliff" as a participial phrase modifying "helicopter." I can't remember right now whether I covered that latter element in my earlier videos.
Ellen, I just discovered you this week. I’m a writer, and I so appreciate your funny and to-the-point teaching style. I loved your longer length videos. Please create both longer and shorter lessons!
When is the next episode of diagramming coming out? I love your videos❤
Thank you! I'm so much more of a writer than a video maker, but I will try to get on this, haha!
I need more my test is tomorrow😢
Can you help me with this one please! I am stuck with "with" The refrigerator is fully stocked with groceries.
"With" is a preposition, and "with groceries" is a prepositional phrase. "With groceries" goes under "stocked."
Hello Mam: Could you please help in diagramming: "The rich are happy." My concern is how to diagram 'rich' which is an adjective used with 'the' as a noun? Or is it fine to put 'rich' in usual 'noun position' ?
That is how I would do it-"rich" in the usual subject position.
Thanks a million@@GrammarTable
Really glad you’re back here. Great video. 👍🏻
Thank you so much, Reza.
Love these, please keep making them
Please keep making videos, Ellen! You make sentence diagramming fascinating!
that was short... and half of it she was apologizing for I don't know what...
Interesting but a little too much editorializing. Sorry. We'er so anal.